Ciao! :D
I am soooo excited to be writing you all this week! I
really have been having a rough time here because we are having some
difficulties. I feel it is necessary for future missionaries out there to
know that things are not 100% peachy all the time. I will tell you also,
though, that even though this week was rough, we have seen many miracles.
Here is my favorite story from the week:
Our trainer, Sister Lovell, went to Rome a day early for Zone conference because
she is a "Sister Training Leader", which people have compared to the
role of a Zone Leader that is a girl. SO, when she went to Rome that left me and
Sister Hibbert (the two greenies ;) to figure things out for ourselves. I
LOVED IT!!! We started off by getting lunch at the big station in Rome, called Termini.
Theeeen, we headed home on the Metro and successfully arrived at our
station (Lido Nord) without getting lost. Lol, I do have to say though
that one lady on the train got a tiny bit upset with me because she asked me,
"Arriva a Acilia." Me, not knowing that this meant, "Does
this train go to Acilia", answered "Arriva a Torre De Valle"
because I thought she was asking where we currently were... Haha, she got
upset for a moment, turned to the man in front of me, and asked the same
question again... Lol, 1st transfer moment of love, you know ;)
Soooo! We got home, went to a members house to help
install an indexing program for family history, and on the way we ran into
Carmello (who I love, and he totally reminds me of Dad! :D). It was
a miracle that we ran into him, because he had cancelled FHE earlier that day,
and we were able to talk to him a bit about things. Then, after we were
done at Barbara’s House (the member we were helping out) me and Sister Hibbert
prayed to know what to do next. As we were praying, an image of the walking
path by the beach came into mind. So, we went finding near the beach to
see what we could do. We were hanging out flyers; met some really cool
people, and then we ran into our investigator, Mario, who had been skipping out
on lessons for the past week because he has exams coming up. We were able
to check in with him, and set up a date for a next appointment. So that
was good.
THEN, we met this nice old man, who said that he did not
want our info cards because he is "too old to change" and "all
there is" for him now is "(he) and his wife". Then, we ran
into this really cool guy, who I think may be homeless, and he has two fingers
on one of his hands. He was pretty funny too. :) And he told
us, "I can tell you two are sent from Jesus Christ, because your faces,
you can see it there. And when else would you have come to talk to me?
You are definitely from Jesus Christ." It was a really cool
experience, and now he will be coming to English course on Fridays! :D
He is also hoping that we can talk to our "brothers" in America about
getting prosthetic fingers. As missionaries, were not sure what to do for
that, but we will try to help him out. :)
After meeting that really nice man, me and Hibbert started
to say stuff like, "Finding is good, and it really shows faith when we don’t
know what else to do." annnnnd BAM! We walk straight into
Alessandro, who we have not seen for a week because he has been on vacation.
We were able to share a nice spiritual thought with him and a prayer too.
It was really nice. Then, we were able to set up another
appointment with him for later this week. Veramente, quello goirno era un
giorno di miracoli! And it felt soooo good to learn things more
independently for a while with someone else who is learning. I really
loved being a duo companionship with Hibbert for a while :)
Other than that, Zone conference was yesterday, and it was
pretty awesome. I really enjoyed hearing from the new Mission President
and his awesome wife, Sorella Waddoups. It was sooo cool! They gave
us all lunch, and we played Gospel Bingo with smarties!!! :D It was
sooo fun. I also got to see Sister Wiltbank and Pancheri, two of the
girls from my MTC District, and it was really nice to talk with them for a
while. :) I really like the people in my Zone, and the Zone next to
us :) They are all pretty fantastic people and outstanding Missionaries.
I think that is it for now, because I have tons of photos to
upload! Ciao for now! Vi voglio bene! :D
-Sorella Corey Cherrington
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